A car manufacturer sold about 332,000 cars last year. The number of cars sold this year is 125% of the cars sold last year. About how many cars were sold this year?

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Lucy
May 25, 2018

415000

Explanation:

The question is asking you in other words what is 125% of 332000

So, you can think of it as below:

#332000 = 100%#
#x=125%#

#x cars = (332000times125)/100#

#x cars = 415000#

Therefore, the number of cars sold is 415000

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